Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Ski Net Abe?
by Sandy Wood - February 20, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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ski_net_abe.jpgFollowing is a list of 3-letter words and names; your job is to group these words (in the correct order) into sets of three. If you’ve done so correctly, you should be able to combine the first letters of each word, followed the second letters and then the last letters, to end up with a nine-letter word. Here’s an example: Suppose the words were SKI, NET, and ABE. By extracting the first letter of each word (S, N, A) followed by the second (K, E, B) and the last (I, T, E) you end up with the word SNAKEBITE. Using this tactic, can you create three different nine-letter words by properly grouping the entries below? Good luck!

ALE   DAD   DEN   ILL   MAY   MET   ORE   SIR   TIS

Here is the SOLUTION.

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Comments (5)

  1. I’m not gonna lie, that was unnecessarily difficult. :)

    posted by Nick on 2-20-2009 at 12:58 pm

  2. Whew!

    It took me about 30 minutes to figure this one out! All I can say is thank god for copy and paste in MS Word. Doing this one with pen and paper might have done me in!

    Have a great weekend!

    posted by Carolyn on 2-20-2009 at 2:05 pm

  3. booyah! stayed late at work to get his one! used pen and paper too!

    posted by nick on 2-20-2009 at 7:15 pm

  4. Did this one pretty quick. Worked with common word endings (-ed & -ly) to get the first two. Then the third was a piece of cake.

    posted by Mace on 2-26-2009 at 2:48 pm

  5. Agh! I thought the 3-letter words had to be a word also…

    I did get MODERATED though.

    posted by Jon on 3-5-2009 at 2:38 pm

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